Author: ProHoster

Video: wasteland and devastation on the Atlantic coast in the Miami global modification for Fallout 4

A team of enthusiasts continues to work on modifying Fallout: Miami for the fourth part of the franchise. The authors wrote in the news feed on the official website that they went deeper into production than before and began to encounter problems more often. They shared their experiences over the past spring in a three-minute video. The video is entirely dedicated to the destroyed city on the Atlantic coast. Miami in the trailer […]

New Microsoft Edge could be coming to Windows 10 20H1

Microsoft is hard at work preparing the new Chromium-based Edge browser for release. And so far, the main efforts are focused on the Canary and Dev builds, and no release dates have been announced. However, researcher Rafael Rivera reported that code was found in the latest build of Windows 10 for Fast Ring insiders that indicates the company's plans […]

FTC deal to cost Facebook $5 billion

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook has reached an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the issue of repeated violations of the principle of privacy. According to the publication, the FTC voted this week to approve the $5 billion settlement, and the case has now been referred to the Justice Department's civil division for review. It is unclear how long this procedure will take. The Washington […]

AMD called lithography one of the main factors in increasing the speed of modern processors

The Semicon West 2019 conference, held under the auspices of Applied Materials, has already borne fruit in the form of interesting statements from AMD CEO Lisa Su. Although AMD itself has not produced processors on its own for a long time, this year it has surpassed its main competitor in terms of the degree of progressiveness of the technologies used. Let GlobalFoundries leave AMD alone in the race for 7nm technology […]

Nintendo Switch Lite: $200 pocket game console

Nintendo has officially unveiled the Switch Lite, a portable gaming console that will go on sale on September 20. The new product is said to be perfect for those who play a lot outside the home, and for those who want to play online or local multiplayer with friends and family who already own the flagship Nintendo Switch model. The pocket console supports […]

Gamification Mechanics: Skill Tree

Hello, Habr! Let's continue the conversation about the mechanics of gamification. The last article talked about ratings, and in this one we’ll talk about the skill tree (technological tree, skill tree). Let's look at how trees are used in games and how these mechanics can be applied in gamification. The skill tree is a special case of the technology tree, the prototype of which first appeared in the board game Civilization […]

KDE Frameworks 5.60 Released

KDE Frameworks is a set of libraries from the KDE project for creating applications and desktop environments based on Qt5. In this release: Several dozen improvements in the Baloo indexing and search subsystem - power consumption on standalone devices has been reduced, bugs have been fixed. New BluezQt APIs for MediaTransport and Low Energy. Many changes to the KIO subsystem. At Entry Points there are now […]

Release of DXVK 1.3 project with Direct3D 10/11 implementation on top of Vulkan API

The DXVK 1.3 layer has been released, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires drivers that support the Vulkan API, such as AMD RADV 18.3, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and games on Linux […]

Distributed DBMS TiDB 3.0 Release

The release of the distributed DBMS TiDB 3.0, developed under the influence of Google Spanner and F1 technologies, is available. TiDB belongs to the category of hybrid HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing) systems, capable of both providing real-time transactions (OLTP) and processing analytical queries. The project is written in Go and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. TiDB Features: SQL support […]

Google is testing a new social network

Google clearly does not intend to say goodbye to the idea of ​​its own social network. Only recently Google+ closed when the “good corporation” began testing Shoelace. This is a new platform for social interaction, which differs from Facebook, VKontakte and others. The developers position it as an offline solution. That is, through Shoelace it is proposed to find friends and like-minded people in the real world. It is assumed that […]

GitHub Package Registry will support Swift packages

On May 10, we launched a limited beta test of the GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages alongside source code. The service currently supports familiar package management tools: JavaScript (npm), Java (Maven), Ruby (RubyGems), .NET (NuGet), Docker images, and more. We are happy to announce that we will be adding support for Swift packages to […]

How to start using User Mode in Linux

Introduction from the translator: Against the backdrop of the massive entry into our lives of various kinds of containers, it can be quite interesting and useful to find out with what technologies it all started once. Some of them can be usefully used to this day, but not everyone remembers such methods (or knows if they were not caught during their rapid development). […]